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I have been having too much difficulty with breeding my HM dragons from DarkMoon17. They have been tail biting a lot and I really don't know what to do about that. I added aquarium salt and some IAL in the tank, but see no improvement. The caudals are so badly bitten up on all three males. It is sad and I feel so guilty because I don't know what to do with them and would like to see them happy again. They rarely flare also. If anyone has any information on this, please send me a PM or VM soon.
In better news, I now have fry. They are a day old and hatched 2/29/12. I thought I wasnt going to make a log, but that didn't work out too well since I wanted to continue showing plenty pictures. The pair spawned on 2/27/12 starting at 8:00 pm eastern time and ending at 9:36pm eastern time. It took the female 5 days to finally follow the male to the nest.
Currently: 3/1/12
The fry are now 2 days old and I have just made a guess at 25-30 fry with just seeing tails and no counting. The male is still tending to them and the nest. I must say that this is the calmest spawn I have ever seen. The male has little to no real work to be done. These fry seem t be very strong and have the power to get themselves back up to the nest from midway down.
So the dad is not going to be very tired after his responsibility.
Here is some pictures of the pair.
http://http://s1000.photobucket.com...t=SupeRedHMPKSpawn034.jpg&mediafilter=noflash
http://s1000.photobucket.com/albums.../?action=view¤t=SupeRedHMPKSpawn032.jpg
Female Also gathering the eggs.
http://s1000.photobucket.com/albums.../?action=view¤t=SupeRedHMPKSpawn031.jpg
Heh. My favorite of them all. The male got a little carried away and tried to force too fast and was stuck like this for a bit:
http://s1000.photobucket.com/albums.../?action=view¤t=SupeRedHMPKSpawn030.jpg
Ahh the joys of breeding!
http://s1000.photobucket.com/albums.../?action=view¤t=SupeRedHMPKSpawn029.jpg
Still adding eggs in the nest.
http://s1000.photobucket.com/albums.../?action=view¤t=SupeRedHMPKSpawn028.jpg
In this picture, unfortunately you can see the "spoon head deformity." I am happy that it isn't something too bad. It isn't something that can kill them either or have them miserable for their life.
And a really cool video of the spawn.
http://s1000.photobucket.com/albums.../?action=view¤t=SupeRedHMPKSpawn026.mp4
As many already know, I am very excited about this spawn and can't wait to see them at a month or two.
Any questions, comments, or interests are welcome. Please feel free to add anything you like (that's appropriate of course)!
In better news, I now have fry. They are a day old and hatched 2/29/12. I thought I wasnt going to make a log, but that didn't work out too well since I wanted to continue showing plenty pictures. The pair spawned on 2/27/12 starting at 8:00 pm eastern time and ending at 9:36pm eastern time. It took the female 5 days to finally follow the male to the nest.
Currently: 3/1/12
The fry are now 2 days old and I have just made a guess at 25-30 fry with just seeing tails and no counting. The male is still tending to them and the nest. I must say that this is the calmest spawn I have ever seen. The male has little to no real work to be done. These fry seem t be very strong and have the power to get themselves back up to the nest from midway down.
So the dad is not going to be very tired after his responsibility.
Here is some pictures of the pair.
http://http://s1000.photobucket.com...t=SupeRedHMPKSpawn034.jpg&mediafilter=noflash
http://s1000.photobucket.com/albums.../?action=view¤t=SupeRedHMPKSpawn032.jpg
Female Also gathering the eggs.
http://s1000.photobucket.com/albums.../?action=view¤t=SupeRedHMPKSpawn031.jpg
Heh. My favorite of them all. The male got a little carried away and tried to force too fast and was stuck like this for a bit:
http://s1000.photobucket.com/albums.../?action=view¤t=SupeRedHMPKSpawn030.jpg
Ahh the joys of breeding!
http://s1000.photobucket.com/albums.../?action=view¤t=SupeRedHMPKSpawn029.jpg
Still adding eggs in the nest.
http://s1000.photobucket.com/albums.../?action=view¤t=SupeRedHMPKSpawn028.jpg
In this picture, unfortunately you can see the "spoon head deformity." I am happy that it isn't something too bad. It isn't something that can kill them either or have them miserable for their life.
And a really cool video of the spawn.
http://s1000.photobucket.com/albums.../?action=view¤t=SupeRedHMPKSpawn026.mp4
As many already know, I am very excited about this spawn and can't wait to see them at a month or two.
Any questions, comments, or interests are welcome. Please feel free to add anything you like (that's appropriate of course)!